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Hojo Motor is a Scam!

The Hojo Motor is a scam.  If you purchased the Hojo Motor plans before reading this post, I'm sorry, you got scammed.  If you purchase the Hojo Motor plans after reading this post, you are dumb.  Plain and simple.  I'm sorry to use harsh words here, but sometimes it's necessary to be blunt in order to get your point across.

We've been down this path before, with the Magniwork scam.  In fact, Magniwork has been our most popular post, and has led us to post Renewable Energy Scams.  As you can see from that post, there is no shortage of scams out there trying to take advantage of the energy ignorant.

I don't care that on the web page for the Hojo plan they show some patents (see the bottom of this post for information regarding said patents) for a some kind of magnetic perpetual motion machine.  I'm not even going to get into the discussion on the laws of thermodynamics.  What I will tell you is if some kind of free energy generator was real, I would be the first person to have it.  You wouldn't hear about some free energy generator from some Google ad, you would hear about it because the President is talking about it on the world stage.  It would be the biggest breakthrough in the 21st century.  And you think you are going to buy some plans for $49.97?  (side note: ClickBank sells these plans along with many other scams, and they should be fined by the Federal Trade Commission)

Hank Mills wrote a great "Letter to Hojo Motor Plan Scammers" in which he stated:

Howard Johnson was a brilliant inventor. You got that one fact correct. However, his technologies were never fully developed, and were still very experimental when he died. Even if he was able to create motion in an experimental test rig (after hundreds or thousands of hours of work), it was not ready to power a home, an appliance, or even a very light load like a light bulb. The idea that someone could take plans for his device, and build a system capable of powering their home, is totally absurd. Unless of course, they had tens of thousands of dollars to spend, months to experiment just to make a motor self-sustain, and even more time and money to do the research and development needed to do anything practical with it.

Don't think we know what we're talking about?  Fine, buy the plans and make a fool of yourself.  For everyone else out there, focus your time on conserving energyproducing real clean energy, and living more sustainably.

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Regarding the Patent Claims, below is what I received from a friend who is a patent attorney:

First, if he got a patent on this "secret" invention that was just released, then it couldn't have been secret, since getting a patent means publicly disclosing the invention.  Patents don't certify that free energy works, the patents simple certify that his magnetic motor works as a magnetic motor

Regarding the patents: I"ve pasted the first independent claim of each of the patents so you can start learning what patents really cover.  The claims are the legal bounds of the patent and define what the inventor is actually protecting.  As you will so, there is no language in any of these claims that says free energy, pertetual motion, etc.

4,151,431 patent expired in 1999.
It Claims: A permanent magnet motor comprising, in combination, a stator track defining a track direction and having first and second sides and composed of a plurality of track permanent magnets each having first and second poles of opposite polarity, said magnets being disposed in side-by-side relationship having a spacing between adjacent magnets and like poles defining said track sides, an elongated armature permanent magnet located on one of said track sides for relative movement thereto and in spaced relationship to said track side wherein an air gap exists between said armature magnet and said track magnets, said armature magnet having first and second poles of opposite polarity located at the opposite ends of said armature magnet defining the length thereof, the length of said armature magnet being disposed in a direction in general alignment with the direction of said track, the spacing of said armature magnet poles from said track associated side and the length of said armature magnet as related to the width and spacing of said track magnets in the direction of said track being such as to impose a continuous force on said armature magnet in said general direction of said track.

(THIS IS NOT CLAIMING A FREE ENERGY DEVICE, just a specific, very narrowly claimed type of motor)

4,877,983 Patent - expired in 2009
It Claims:
In combination with a movable armature, means for guiding movement of the armature along a predetermined path and a permanent armature magnet having magnetic poles of opposite polarity spaced from each other along said path to establish a magnetic field of limited extent movable with the armature and magnetic stator means for establishing a stationary magnetic flux zone along said path, the improvement comprising flux emitting surfaces of one polarity mounted on the stator means on opposite sides of said path for limiting said flux zone through which said path extends and means mounting the permanent armature magnet on the armature with the poles thereof orientated relative to said flux emitting surfaces on the stator means for unidirectionally propelling the armature along said path through the limited zone in response to magnetic interaction between the movable magnetic field and the limited flux zone, said magnetic stator means including a plurality of magnetic gate assemblies fixedly spaced from each other along said path and respectively establishing stationary magnetic fields, each of said gate assemblies including a plurality of interconnected bar magnets substantially bordering said limited flux zone exposing pole faces of opposite polarity in parallel spaced planes intersected by said path, and magnetic means connected to said interconnected bar magnets exposing one of the flux emitting surfaces of said one polarity perpendicular to said parallel planes for magnetic interaction of the stationary magnetic fields.

(AGAIN, NOT CLAIMING PERPETUAL MOTION, just a different motor configuration)

5,402,021 will expire 2015
It Claims:
A magnetic propulsion system comprising:

a vehicle having a rigidly attached magnetic armature, said magnetic armature including a first series of magnets positioned across said vehicle and extending generally from one lateral side of the vehicle to another lateral side of the vehicle, all of the magnets in said first series of magnets being generally parallel to one another;

a first magnetic wall disposed laterally adjacent said vehicle and extending longitudinally along a desired direction of vehicle travel, said first magnetic wall comprising a second series of magnets, each of the magnets in said second series having a particular size and a North-to-South axis pointing in the same direction as the desired direction of vehicle travel, each of said permanent magnets of said particular size in said second series being separated from the next successive permanent magnet in said second series by a thinner magnet, each of said thinner magnets having a pole-to-pole length which is shorter than the lateral width of said magnets of a particular size in said second series, said thinner magnets further having a North-to-South axis pointing perpendicular to the North-to-South axis of said magnets of a particular size in said second series and pointing generally toward a vehicle side of the first magnetic wall; and

a second magnetic wall disposed generally parallel to said first magnetic wall and laterally adjacent to said vehicle but opposite from said first magnetic wall, said second magnetic wall comprising a third series of magnets, each of said magnets in said third series having said particular size and a North-to-South axis pointing in an opposite direction from the desired direction of vehicle travel, each of the permanent magnets in said third series being separated from the next successive permanent magnet of said particular size in said third series by a thinner magnet, each of said thinner magnets in the second magnetic wall having a pole-to-pole length which is shorter than the lateral width of said magnets of a particular size in said third series, said thinner magnets in the second magnetic wall further having a North-to-South axis pointing in the same general direction as the North-to-South axis of the thinner magnets in the first magnetic wall;

wherein said first and second magnetic walls create magnetic fields which exert propelling forces on said armature and thereby cause the vehicle to accelerate in the desired direction of vehicle travel.

(claim and EXTREMELY narrow vehicle with some sort of magnetic propulsion motor, nothing more)

It is annoying how many people get up in arms about patents when they just take for granted what someone who is clearly also not a patent person tells them.  Always always always read the claims of the patent before making any comments about what the patent supposedly covers.

Click here to learn why perpetual motion free energy machines don't work.  Make any comments regarding perpetual motion on the post in the link.  You can make HoJo scam comments below.

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Wow great debate here! After reading almost all of the posts one thing is clear the HOJO motor is a scam. There is not one example of anyone getting one to work here (except for James T, but his results are suspicious and I believe not true, because he has no proof just wild claims). Bottom line is: I would not waste my money on the BS tech and I would suggest the same to anybody. I know there will be those who will buy into the scam, as there are very gullible people out there, I can only feel sorry for them. The thing that convinces me the most is the simple fact that, if this really worked someone would be making millions off the tech and not just trying to scam people with the plans. The power companies,the illuminati, the masons are not in control as the conspiracy theorist would have us believe. This point was well illustrated by the buggy whip example. Why would VHS let DVD happen? Why would NTSC let HDTV happen? Why would land line telephones let cell phones happen? Why would GM let Toyota happen in this country? Why did all other stores let Wal-Mart happen? Why? Because they can't. A good idea will go forward and someone will make money. The power companies would have bought into this technology and would be using it, if it worked. bottom line: Progress is going to happen...Nuff said.
What a total scam! Have you gone to the HoJo website? I have - has SCAM written all over it, and here's why: 1. No information at all about the (perpetual motion) device. 2. References to idiotic obscure patent numbers - utterly meaningless 3. Testimonials from absolute nobodies that say absolutely nothing about the device - just how "revolutionary" or "great" it is. Must be Amway flunkies running the HoJo website. 4. Plays to the wack-job conspiracy nuts who have been brainwashed to think the Corporate Elite, all-mighty electrical companies, ZOG, the free masons, Pinkey and "the Brain" rule the world. 5. Completely ignores that if the device was worth a crap, the Chinese would have already reverse engineered it and sold it to the Koreans, African nations and on Ebay. Save your money - buy a chinese made "spy watch" instead - at least for less than $100 they actually work!
Chris, are you like "in" with the electric companies??? Lol
I agree. I've been reading these comments for about 10 min. What a bunch of BULL SHIRT. Put the thing to bed. Someone who has paid for the plans and built one should write in and tell us all how wonderful the thing works.I doubt this will happen as most people are ashamed to admit how dumb they were in getting ripped off. C'mon just one person. There are 488 comments out there at this time and all i'm seeing is a bunch of diy scientists kicking the idea around. Not one bona fide motor.
I just finished building mine. You guys are all wrong. The secret is to use wooden magnets. Not only did it get me to Sagittarius, it got me back before I left. And when I got back I found that it had charged my Samsung cell phone and converted it into an iPhone 7S. After I said goodbye to myself I just had to write this post to tell you all. If you don't buy the plans for the GoJo Motor you are all fools and will get polio.
i searched uspto site, all these 4151431, 4877983, 5402021, exist and registered ! so, whoever runs this blog is the smartass scam, go search for yourselves, thas it.
Wow, good info here. I was tempted to purchase the plans for two reasons, 1 the cheap price 2 Way back in my teens I was always tinkering with something and had an idea that if I could couple an electric Motor with a Generator that could provide enough power to run the motor and still have surplus power to run another device I could have an awesome invention, all I would have to do is get the thing spinning and off it would go but it never did work. I figured I was missing somthing and that I needed more than the basic electronics classes I had taken. I also thought that far more educated people than myself had also thought of this and tried it, and if someone made it work it would be on the market. With all the claims that it works you would expect to find an actual video of the HoJo motor working but so far have not found one. All I see are photos of smiling people claiming how wonderful it is. I skimmed through the patents and found nothing that sait it actually works so it looks to me like all that was pantented was a theory. I do however believe that this could somehow work but it would certainly not be a device the average Joe could build in his shop for $100.00, it would probably take millions of dollars and a team more advanced than that of the Manhatten project.
Interesting. It appears that this device was not an exact replica of one of Faraday's machines. I'm a general machinist with some sheet copper sitting in my basement. I may some day build a "Faradayish" device of my own out of curiosity, but it's not very high on my list of priorities right now. I don't expect such a machine to have much of a practical application, but it would make a good conversation piece and teaching aid. Thanks for your feedback.
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I run the blog and I never said they didn't exist. READ THE ENTIRE SECOND HALF OF THE BLOG POST! Just because they exist, doesn't mean they even describe perpetual motion or even work. What is wrong with you people?
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Eric, YOU WONT SEE SOMEONE BUILT IT BECAUSE IT CANT BE BUILT. You really can't even get started the instructions are so ridiculous. As I've said many times, imagine I sold you plans to build a magic rocket ship to the moon. And in the plans I said you had to acquire 2,000 sheets of aluminum and machine it to 10.39482" wide by 1041.3232452" tall secured to a platinum frame with 1,7273 screws. And then you had to build a flux capacitor out of an old chevy big block engine that was powered by triple distilled ultra premium vodka. Would you build that, because after all, I told you it would be worth your labor because you would get to go to the moon. Or would you say, "Shoot, I just got scammed". HoJo is like that. You will never see one that has even been attempted to be made, just like you will never see my magic rocket ship.

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